Interesting things I have found while researching/taking web breaks over the past few days:

• Everyone must visit the Present&Correct blog - it's so full of awesome (also, they're based in London!)
• Carla Bruni wore flats around Sarkozy?
• In the aftermath of the Chelsea-Bayern showdown...here's Cameron cheering for Chelsea, and other things

On a more ( Read more... )

1. Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (idek but seriously)
2. The story of Jonathan and David

Time to immerse myself in very emotionally neutral regression statistics and my GV101 tables.

First difference between the Singapore and UK budgets that I noticed: I don't see anything on skills upgrading in the UK budget.

I have this sudden urge to play the guitar ):

I've been thinking about doing some sort of wall art when I move back into my term time room. I need black yarn and more dried leaves. And I need to make more magazine flowers. (If only coloured paper here wasn't so expensive grrr.)

Things I've always wanted to find out:

• What causes the "smell of rain"?
• Why is urine yellow?

In other news, this morning I resumed clearing out my cupboard and found the letters/postcards/cards I've received from friends in the last 12 years. Well that brought back a million and one memories. And as I ran through my packing list and sorted some ( Read more... )

• Today I learned how to...pee into a bottle ._.
• My x-ray image shows that my heart is further down and center than I thought. The pledge is so misleading!
• Gained 1.5 kg from last year or so. Dang ):
• Michelle Bachmann: victim of the TPL epidemic?
• Yesterday's episode of "Glee" didn't make "Friday" sound that much better. But then again I don't like ( Read more... )

I'm confused; I have always thought that Babar and Zephir belonged to the same generation, and that the same goes for Badou and Chiku. But as it turns out, Badou is Babar grandson while Chiku is Zephir's daughter. So which pair belongs to different generations?

And I just found out that 1) Badou is Pom's son and that 2) Cornelius is the PM of ( Read more... )

• Acoustic "Don't Look Back In Anger" as performed in Argentina to a very enthusiastic crowd that sings along to the entire song - I can't help but sing along, and may possibly cry to this someday
• infantcrow's Tumblr contains a collection of the prettiest illustrations
• How to Steal Like An Artist (and Other Things No One Told Me) by Austin Kleon
• German ( Read more... )

Earlier today, I spoke with David Beers, director of Standard Poor’s sovereign debt department. He explained that it wasn’t economic factors that had put America’s credit rating at risk, nor world events. It was credit-rating agency’s increasing fears that our political system was no longer up to the challenges that face it. “What we’re saying ( Read more... )

• Merkel's eyebags look terrible here...
• A very succint, bullet-point summary of the EU's latest plan to save Greece and the Eurozone
• The Euro Crisis Song (it's actually quite catchy)
• All about typoholism
• Some principles on charitable giving, and a newly developed system based on these principles